Froton Dragon Quotes & Sayings

Students love trying to imitate Nabokov, which teaches them a lot - mostly about why not to imitate somebody wired so differently from yourself. Nabokov wannabes don't sound just like turds, but like pretentious turds. The writer's best voice will grow from embracing her own "you-ness" - which I call talent, and which is best expressed in voice. Which — Mary Karr

My eyes has been my camera taking pictures of the world and my songs has been my messages that I tried to scatter across the back sides and along the steps of the fire escapes and on the window sills and through the dark halls ... — Woody Guthrie

Isis, I am not one to act out with such posture. Please accept my sincere apology, as I have nothing else to offer. — Nely Cab

Have you heard anything useful come out of an actor's mouth lately? — Bruce Willis

Obamacare is terminal. It is going to fail under the crushing weight of its own flawed design. — Glenn Thompson

I haven't done the milestoney things - getting married, buying a house, having children. — Eve Best

People can leave, and then they can come back. It sounds simple, like an obvious thing. But when I realized that, the truth if it seemed important. — Ava Dellaira

Falsehood is difficult to be maintained. When the materials of a building are solid blocks of stone, very rude architecture will suffice; but a structure of rotten materials needs the most careful adjustment to make it stand at all. — Richard Whately

Unlike other sicknesses, life is always fatal. It doesn't tolerate therapies. It would be like stopping the holes that we have in our bodies, believing them wounds. We would die of strangulation the moment we were treated. — Italo Svevo

A man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of life getting his living. — Henry David Thoreau

It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.' — Ed Stoppard

And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war. — Aristotle.

One life, you've got to do what you should — U2

Today, no one questions-whether women are equal to men in ability and itelligence. — Julie Nixon Eisenhower

I grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me. The older kids decided to pick me on me starting when I was about 6 and it didn't take me long to take a stand for myself. — Bo Jackson